The importance of bees as insect pollinators is being increasingly recognised. Meanwhile, have you wondered what constituted a medieval status symbol? Jon Radley tells us more #ClimateMatters
Victorian Warwick and Warwickshire was dominated by coal and wood burning, and was a rather sooty and dirty place. Jon Radley tells us more #ClimateMatters
How often do we even notice stones or pebbles around us? Find out what momentous secrets they hold. Jon Radley tells us more. #ClimateMatters
Here at Warwickshire Museum and Heritage & Culture Warwickshire, we are putting a spotlight on the special objects in our collections. #ClimateMatters
This old nursery rhyme came to mind when I was busy indexing the Quarter Session Minutes for 1824. At the Easter sessions in Warwick Court House, several men were in ...
Berkswell has a row of almshouses centrally located on the village green; they were built to replace parish poor houses.
The original charity
In 1589 parishioners complained that the Lord of the ...
A potted early history
The origins of St John’s were in the mid to late 1100s, when it was originally a sprawling medieval hospital. Its position on the eastern edge of ...
The minutes of the Quarter Sessions held in Warwick and Coventry are currently being indexed and they turn out to contain all sorts of surprising snippets of information. For example, ...
Reassigned recreation land in 1927, Hearsall Common is the city’s most extensive common. Not that the cessation of pannage and commoners’ rights was ever recognised by Farmer Green. As a ...
I was born February 25th 1937 at 2, The Common, Polesworth, which was also the birthplace of my dad Ernie. The house is still there, over the road from the ...
I think you may find these two photos interesting.
They are both of the Polesworth Church Lads Brigade. The first one includes a band, which was probably brought in to mark ...
